A brief history of intelligence: Why the evolution of the brain holds the key to the future of AI

Bennett, Max S.

A brief history of intelligence: Why the evolution of the brain holds the key to the future of AI - London: William Collins, 2024. - xiv, 415p., glos., note., bib., ind., 20 cm X 13 cm

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Content:

The world before brains
Breakthrough #1: Steering and the first bilaterians
The birth of good bad
The origin of emotion
Associating, predicting, and the dawn of learning
Breakthrough #2: Reinforcing and the first vertebrates
The Cambrian explosion
The evolution of Temporal Difference Learning
The problems of pattern recognition
Why life got curious
The first model of the world
Breakthrough #3: Simulating and the first mammals
The neural dark ages
Generative models and the neocortical mystery
Mice in the imaginarium
Model-based reinforcement learning
The secret to dishwashing robots
Breakthrough #4: Mentalizing and the first primates
The arms race for political savvy
How to model other minds
Monkey hammers and self-driving cars
Why rats can't go grocery shopping
Breakthrough #5: Speaking and the first humans
The search for human uniqueness
Language in the brain
The perfect storm
ChatGPT and the window into the mind
Conclusion: the sixth breakthrough.

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